I've had potential customers ask this and I've had other photographers who want to sell prints ask this. Sometimes fun to guess which they are.
8x10s go in a plastic bag surrounded by two pre-cut piece of 8.5x11 corrugated cardboard, which all gets put into a flat rate envelope. I buy the cardboard 100-200 at a time and the bags 1,000 at a time from Uline. I used to use just one piece of cardboard domestically and I don't think the damage rate is different but the customers seem to like the look of two better - more reassuring.
11x14s including alternative process prints go into a plastic bag, and that gets sandwiched between two thin pieces of cardboard. Then that goes into a box. It's the larger size of the priority mail boxes (there are two almost identical sizes in a "pizza box" format, there are also some "shoebox" boxes and other options that don't work).
16x20s get rolled up with a thin piece of foam that sticks out a couple of inches on either side past the print. That gets put into a tube. I've had bad luck with the free priority mail tubes so I buy document tubes from Uline. They're a couple of bucks each even in bulk but it's worth it.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
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